Linux on ARM tablets?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Mar 28 17:23:08 UTC 2011


> Well... given the demise of Meego, more or less, and the pending demise

Meego isn't dead.

> of Symbian and the fact that Nokia just signed a deal with the software
> devil to use Windows on their handsets, I think there is a huge
> opportunity for Redhat to go after the mobile device market.  Just look
> at the success of Android.   A lot of players in the mobile market would
> love to partner with someone other than Google.

So you've got a business plan - you know what to do.

Seriously if you want ARM tablet support in Fedora build a Fedora for ARM
tablet (or at least a tablet of choice as you'll probably need a lot of
one off driver/kernel bits and customisation per board).

The Debian folks run on one of the tablets already.

Alan


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